Career

Experience

5+ years building cloud-native SaaS at Citrix, spanning multi-cloud infrastructure, IaC tooling, compliance, and billing systems.

Timeline

MBA · Tepper School of Business + Master of Software Engineering · SCS

EducationAug 2026 – Dec 2028 (anticipated)

Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 15213

  • Joint master degree program combining business strategy and advanced software engineering.
  • Tepper School of Business — MBA Program
  • School of Computer Science — Master of Software Engineering
Relevant coursework
Corporate StrategyMarketing ManagementOperations ManagementFinanceFinancial and Managerial AccountingMarketing for EntrepreneurshipManaging People and TeamsManagement Presentation

Senior Software Engineer

WorkSep 2025 - Aug 2026

Citrix Business Unit · Cloud Software Group · Nanjing, China

  • Led design and development of the billing and cost-prediction system for Citrix Platform Flex, the next-generation managed desktop platform, enabling enterprise customers (e.g., Wipro) to deploy on Azure, AWS or GCP with minimal configuration at minimum cost.
  • Automated Terraform configuration generation for existing enterprise environments (BlackRock, Barclays), moving customers from manual provisioning to Infrastructure as Code and enabling rapid redeployment for disaster recovery.

Software Engineer II

WorkJan 2023 - Aug 2025

Citrix Business Unit · Cloud Software Group · Fort Lauderdale, FL & Nanjing, China

  • Extended Citrix DaaS beyond Azure onto AWS WorkSpaces Core and GCP, broadening platform choice for enterprise customers including Mastercard and Greenberg Traurig.
  • Drove security hardening that earned FedRAMP Moderate certification, a prerequisite for serving U.S. federal agencies, and led the roadmap toward FedRAMP High.
  • Led development of the open-source Terraform Provider for Citrix, giving on-premises and cloud customers a standardized path to adopt Infrastructure as Code.
  • Prototyped an LLM-based log-analysis tool and presented it at an internal hackathon, inspiring product security teams to integrate AI into pre-deployment artifact scans.
  • Automated CI/CD workflows in TeamCity and Splunk monitoring pipelines, reducing manual operational toil.

Software Engineer

WorkJul 2021 - Dec 2022

Citrix Systems, Inc. · Fort Lauderdale, FL

  • Led migration of three projects from .NET Framework 4.8 to .NET Core, improving performance by 50%+ and enabling cross-platform deployment that cut infrastructure cost by 80%.
  • Built internal tools and automated Splunk dashboards for monthly customer-bill validation and product-health monitoring, now adopted company-wide to manage dashboards and alerts as code.
  • Delivered features for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops and DaaS Standard for Azure, eliminating 200+ bugs to improve product efficiency and security.
  • Refactored shared libraries and base services, delivering measurable performance and reliability gains across multiple product teams.

Teaching Assistant — Computer Science

WorkSep 2020 - May 2021

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology · Terre Haute, IN

  • Supported instruction for CSSE 280 (Introduction to Web Programming); held office hours and provided feedback on assignments.

Software Engineer Intern

WorkJun 2020 - Aug 2020

Citrix Systems, Inc. · Fort Lauderdale, FL

  • Developed new product features that contributed to significant reductions in operating costs.

Software Developer Intern

WorkMar 2019 - May 2020

Rose-Hulman Ventures · Terre Haute, IN

  • Modernized a 22-year-old labor union web management platform by migrating to .NET Core MVC, improving security, maintainability, and developer experience.

B.S. Computer Science & Mathematics — Double Major

EducationSep 2017 – May 2021

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology · Terre Haute, Indiana, USA 47803

  • GPA 3.50 / 4.00 · Minors: Entrepreneurial Studies, Data Science
  • Rose-Hulman Programming Team
  • RISE Business Club
  • Sigma Nu Fraternity, Beta Upsilon Chapter
  • ESCALATE Entrepreneurship Program
Relevant coursework
Data Structures & AlgorithmsSoftware Architecture & DesignDatabase SystemsMachine LearningArtificial IntelligenceNatural Language ProcessingParallel ComputingData MiningWeb DevelopmentiOS DevelopmentOperating SystemsSoftware Requirement EngineeringTime SeriesGraph TheoryDeterministic OptimizationMathematical Modeling

Senior High — A-Level Program

Education2014 – 2017

The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China · Beijing, China

  • International Curriculum Center (ICC)

Junior High

Education2011 – 2014

Tsinghua University High School · Beijing, China